In the book Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina, education, and the lack there of, plays one of the largest roles in the character's lives. At this time in West Virginia, where the book is set, many children had to leave school and actually go into the coalmines, as Rondal Lloyd did, or work on the family farm. Racial ignorance is also a key element Giardina confronts in the novel. The characters, chief and secondary, equally cultural and racially bland, pass on their beliefs and therefore help to maintain the continuous circle of inequality that carries on even today. Political knowledge, at least on the national and state level, is also lacking within the little town of Annadel. With this knowledge coupled with her own experiences from growing up as an immigrants daughter in the same coalfields as her novels characters, Denise Giardina tries to explain the function of education and ignorance in not only the coalfields of West Virginia, but throughout the entire world.

Until the child labor laws of the twentieth century came into effect, a child leaving school either temporarily or permanently, in order to work and help sustain one's family, was a rather common practice. For instance, Rondal is taken out of school because his father is unable to produce enough money to take care of the family on his own; therefore, Rondal is left to pick up the slack in the mine. This is only another step in the circle of ignorance. If one is taken out of a comfortable educational environment and thrown into a dark, cold, abyss first the ability to cope with life's simple problems is virtually nonexistent. This is later revealed in the book when Rondal cannot come to terms with how he feels about Carrie not to mention his "need" to keep moving and fighting for a better life for the coal miners' children of the future.

Moreover, education can also be halted due to ones gender. This is so in the case of Carrie Bishop....

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My name is Kimberly I’m fifteen years old and I bought your book “ My Time in Heaven” yesterday (June 19’ 12). I got the idea to start reading books about people dying and coming back life after the day that I went to the carnival last week. I went to the carnival with my family and on my way back home we started to talk about how if you play a song backwards you hear another message. Its called backmasking. If you don’t know what it means I’d rather you look it up on google than me explain it to you because I’m not good with explaining. After speaking about that my somewhat aunt said that we needed to watch what we listened to because those are devilish songs and if we were to die the next minute or even second we would be sent to hell for listening to the devilish songs. Singers like Beyonce, Nicki Minaj, Drake, and Lady Gaga all have those subliminal messages in them. Saying to kill and lean on them and saying that they were rich and beautiful because they worship Lucifer. Then my aunt started to say how she saw this video on YouTube of this lady that died and came back to life. She was taken to hell to see what it was like and to warn the people up on earth. She said that she had seen the pope, Michael Jackson and Selena (the Spanish singer that died long time ago). Selena had told her that every time they play her songs up on earth, the demons beat her. I got interested all...

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coopted then when the AGM arrives you can decide
whether to stand for election. Julie Carr, the current chair,
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JULIE@jcarr17.fsnet.co.uk / telephone 01924-327658 or
mobile 0779-5540-234
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this coming April, it would be great to have someone
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